NY Times: The Long and Long of It at No. 17
Aug 8 2005 in Events and Outings by thestarter
In The Long and Long of It at No. 17, Dave Anderson writes:
The longest hole in major championship golf not only resembles the shape of New Jersey on a map, it also plays almost as if it really were the length of the state. As if its tee were down there in Cape May on the Jersey Shore and its green were up there in the hills of Mahwah near the New York border.
From the Baltusrol tee marker – “17th hole, 650 yards” – you can't even see the six cross bunkers out where the fairway turns slightly left and uphill.
And when the 87th P.G.A. Championship starts Thursday at Baltusrol in a leafy suburb about 20 miles west of New York, the 17th hole will provoke the same question it did during the 1993 United States Open:
Will any of the golfers get there in two?
Tiger says it's a three-shot hole… We'll see about that.
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